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I went hunting for some creepy pasta the other day and caught be a big'n. Haven't seen this posted before and I thought some of you may glean some uncomfortable feelings from it.
Sauce: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/
Links to parts 2 and 3 are up as well.
timitom
For those interested in this sort of thing, have a look at 'Missing 411' by David Paulides. Similar to this but based on real cases.
BitterSwedeLP
Shit like this is I live my life indoors. http://imgur.com/JUvzYB7
GabeSalamander
One time, curiosity got the better of me. I went up the staircase. At the top was my dad, who beat the shit out of me with jumper cables.
FroggingBullfish
Couldn't sleep when I read these last. Read them ALL
SqueezeTheDay
oatsbuckey
There is a book and movie dealing with this exact issue in our national parks called "Missing 411" by David Paulides.
Bronxon
I am caught. These are terrifying! I love it!
ZaWarudoWRYYYYY
Fucking hell. Ever since I played resident evil as I kid I cannot stay in the woods at night. Always think zombies are going to come out.
QuotablePoots
Stairs and chimneys, stairs and chimneys. Walk right by without batting an eye. Child rhyme my grandmother taught me while in the forest.
GlimpseOfCrabs
I recommend NoSleep Podcast to those who want more, but are unable to focus on reading for extended periods.
Icommentwithnospaces
Stay away from the blueberries
AkLonewolf
Once found foot prints in the snow starting 30' from the edge of a cliff and ending at the cliff. BAREFOOT prints. The snow was unbroken 1/2
AkLonewolf
when we were walking up to the cliff edge. There was no way some one could made them.
Karlkingofduckss
I've seen it here and there but this isn't the full thing, he goes on the tell about the stairs too
jppv86
I was on a SAR team and none of those freaky things happened to us. Terrifying.
AaronPaulSturtevant
they said you wouldn't talk about the stairs. tell us about the stairs goddammit!
MrPhuckett
tryin2figureitout
Where are these links to parts 2 & 3? They're not in the post and I don't see any more of these in your submission history?
lawildginger
Sorry, got late and tired. The links for each are at the end of his posts. Link for #2 at the end of 1 and 3 at end of 2
redwolf6879
Surprising lack of jumper cables
ObliqueRay
What do you think is at the top of the staircases...
fappingsloth
And tree fiddy.....
Hoparistic
The bear man one was a famous case, look it up on YouTube it's an interesting story
ilikepotatoesalot
sauce? please?
DjMNova
The staircases in the woods is a real thing though....
Karlkingofduckss
Are they though?
DjMNova
If you believe it they will appear
ColoradoGirrl
I've read a good bit of this guys stuff on no sleep. He's really good at setting up creepy and horrifying stories and making them sound real
tooomanysteves
LEARN TO FUCKING CROP. 2 minutes in paint, ffs. Why is this so hard?
NixonDidNothingWrong
But why bother when you can make a sure thing 1000+ upvotes with the least effort/quality. Like a JJ Abrams movie.
ronin1869
Paint? No need to even leave your phone. Crop is built into the photos app. Just use it...
tooomanysteves
I'm glad that someone agrees with me!
foobarRAWR
The story about the guy in the parka was terrifying. Would make for a good premise for a movie... That I'd be too afraid to see.
ElectricStover
Like this poor kid in Brothers Grimm: https://youtu.be/PR9wl4Qve5E
AleHanSolo
It's been done before. Watch Doctor Who
ApsychicRat
is it supposed to be a wendigo?
Radiorifle
Wendigo aren't faceless. They are generally described as being larger than human and having gaunt skin (always starving).
foobarRAWR
You also deserve points because your cropping doesn't overlap.
TheFoxQueen
The thing?
M4nFle5h
Slenderman in joggins?
leechdemon
Slavicman?
Compound515
How would he drink wodka with no face? Plot holes everywhere
Karlkingofduckss
You deserve more points
KitKateC
There's like 6 other stories from different people describing the same guy. Freaky stuff
Feanor19
Staircase one. Eh I've built shit in the middle of nowhere before because it's my hiking grounds. Friend found a treehouse off one of our
Feanor19
Trails. Went by it for two weeks til he found the guy building it. Two levels and plumbing. Dude went all out for his hide away
Pennjamin87
docthrobulator
I loved these!
jmariebeau
The brain can do weird things to us.
DARfuckinROCKS
When I was a kid we camped in a state forest. My friend and I used to walk around this same pond every single day several times a day1/?
DARfuckinROCKS
One day we decided to walk it the other way around. We ended up completely fuckin lost which made no possible sense. I knew those woods well
DARfuckinROCKS
We ended up somewhere that looked like it didn't fuckin belong in Massachusetts. Deserty, with like cliffs and shit. Weird as fuck.
DARfuckinROCKS
It started to get dark so we just started running. When we came out of those woods we were miles from where we started. Impossibly far.
DARfuckinROCKS
I feel really bad after reading all those stories. My parents were freaked. The whole park was looking for us.
JohnMcL7
This reminds me of a time I was out walking the dog in the evening with friends, we'd walked up to the top and sat chatting for a while 1/?
ilikepotatoesalot
NOPE.
JohnMcL7
We didn't realise we were in a pool of moonlight and that it had got very dark and we only had a tiny torch but not a problem 2/?
JohnMcL7
That was until the dog started growling and brought his hackles up, he had an excellent sense of smell and never bothered by darkness 3/?
JohnMcL7
We tried to comfort him but he seemed determined there was something, he hadn't done this before and never did it again 4/?
JohnMcL7
We listened carefully as we couldn't see anything but there was just the usual noises of the wind going through the trees 5/?
JohnMcL7
We headed back to the car at a quick pace but could see something lit up in the distance even though it was a remote area at night 6/?
guardianangel0
For those of you that like audio books, here's a YouTube link: https://youtu.be/nhkgXOUDetc
guardianangel0
Sry, let me clarify, the link is an audio version of these stories from the SAR Officer
CricketThomas
Now I want to know where the stairs go.
MetalDucky
If i remember correctly, the stairs were an art installation
IndyAndyJones
Stairway To Heaven probably
ConfusedFlareon
Sometimes nowhere. Sometimes part of you goes somewhere. Not all of you. Sometimes someone else goes somewhere...
darkandevil
Apparently climbing the stairs causes other people to get lost in the woods or something. This guy posted videos on youtube about it. creepy
EvilMidnightBomberWhatBombsAtMidnight
The stairs lead straight up into superstition.
VoidGearArie
Did you ever watch the Ten Steps?
theinternetconfusesme
read more posts from the author. they're really good and you get some more about the stairs. one of my favorite series.
Caltropp
Just read up to part 7. Shits addictive as hell
onlyhalfghost
Time to get writing that SCP, then.
BreakerSwitch
I swear this is already an SCP that exists. Will followup later.
BreakerSwitch
Did some cursory googling, wasn't able to find it. I must've seen it somewhere else.
Kangawallafox
Me too and I wonder if they go up or down
TheLivingJesus
Been some time since i read the rest but i think he writes more about them in part 2 and 3
oframpage
I automatically pictured them going up for some reasonable doubt
dogenuggets
They go up, I remember a post with a picture and someone trying to make out it was scary, probably where they got the idea from for this.
CricketThomas
Ooo good question!!! This one needs a creepy pasta done on it.
BraveUsersubNewestPatrol
The post itself is creepypasta, not real.
BearForceTwo
the stairs do exist. but the answer is a simple "old house, last thing left standing in most cases is the staircase"
NurseSlacky
These... these are fiction. R-r-right??
ConfusedFlareon
No, everything on NoSleep is totally real.
PartiallyShavedSasquatch
The author supposedly caught hell from the mods for trying to portray them as nonfiction.
mikeatike
All of them except the staircase one.
GRiMGRiZ
yeah scoob, you fuckin puss
hellifiknowwhatsgoingon
so well written my goosebumps haven't gone away. The no-face guy...oof.
BigHugeSmallTaco
Man bear pig is real.
raidleadergutts
No. Why would they be? Some of them are supernatural, but the rest are pretty mundane, if horrifying.
RippleNipple
Probably
pixarpizza
The stairs thing is real, actually.
Freakingdoomguy
Have you seen them
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Freakingdoomguy
I WAS HOPING THEY WERE FAKE
ReferenceCheck
It would be a good place to post true stories just to get them out and not have to deal with any backlash.
RagingEnglishMajor
Yeah. You can always tell with details like the scar on the neck. Horror always wants the villain to seem omniscient cause it's spookier.
Cavemango
notatallfamous
I really thought shaggy was gonna crank something else..
BraveUsersubNewestPatrol
Yes, NoSleep is a fiction subreddit. Still cool.
SomeoneAlreadyTookMrPoopyButthole
I feel likes these are based on experiences but have been heavily exaggerated, NoSleep stories are supposed to make you wonder,
vishuskitten42
So they'll have you believe..!
SierraSykes2
I didn't even catch that at first. Meanwhile I read the whole thing and am now thoroughly creeped out.
Kamnum
OH THANK GOD
GrandArcanum
Thank the lord for small mercies,imma still have nightmares though
raidleadergutts
They didn't post them as fiction. They posted them there because they didn't know where else to put them.
FluffyKittyGuy
Perfect ruse.
troublecliff
These are very well written to the point of being very convincing though...
imightbeawesome
A bit too convincing...
GrifCreeper
That's meant to be the point of r/NoSleep. Really well worded stories that sound like they very well could be real.
TheFoxQueen
Some of them push it, like the stairs one, but they're really good otherwise
rainbowblow
The rules say ur supposed to assume they're real
Nanaashi
Yep, because the writers answer questions and interact with readers. It's just for fun.
ChainsawHandsJoe
That was back when Nosleep toed the line of real or fake. Now the fake ones are obvious.
ctennessen
Most all no-sleeps are obvious fiction but this series... always makes me wonder
MisterDildy
From the things I saw when I was at my mom's house I'm always sceptical about these things.
MisterDildy
Sceptical like I believe there could be these things in the world but I know some people tell really good stories
Radiorifle
I've spent my share of time pretty deep in the woods and there's nothing out there but critters. No wendigos, jackalopes, or hidebehinds ~1
Radiorifle
*Regular animals that is (elk and bears and whatnot) I'll give you the agropelter though lol. Those guys are dicks
Radiorifle
Also snipes. We hunt those guys all the time.
vikingvampireangel
I was out hiking in rutting season for mule deer. Fucking chargy mcdickface scared me worse than any bear encounter I've had so far.
UnemployedInGreenland
I know these are fake, but the staircase one is totally plausible. They could belong to houses that have burnt down. (1/2)
darkandevil
I've seen the stairs posted about before, and the last time it was posted, there were a series of youtube videos with it. I watched them all
darkandevil
It didn't seem like they were from burnt houses, and I don't know which videos were the original, but this is similar at least:
darkandevil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guS_dpRE0lg
AaronPaulSturtevant
for me that one was the least believable of the lot
raidleadergutts
You "know" these are fake? How exactly?
Maverickingdom
It's from r/ nosleep. A fictional creepy story sub Reddit.
UnemployedInGreenland
That's how we always found the site of my mom's old house near Reading, PA. Looked for the staircase that was left behind (2/2).
ConfusedFlareon
Yeah I love my totally fireproof stairs that remain in perfect untouched condition after my house is removed to nothing ;)
UnemployedInGreenland
Wooden house. Concrete / stone stairs. Not uncommon in rural areas in the 50s.
ConfusedFlareon
But with no ashes or marks??
TheLivingJesus
Could've been older than 50 years. A colonist might have build a hunting cabine in 1800-something that then burned down.
pretzelbetzel
Over time, ash is rained away and markings blend in with the forest floor. It's not unreasonable.